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When everything went wrong

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 NOV 2010
... nicely. South Korea even grew wealthy and is the only Asian country to become a member of the rich club of nations - the OECD - apart from Japan of course. But "If anything can go wrong..." The trouble in this Asian Tiger has added to the continuing ...

Slim pickings in intl equities: van Eyk

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 NOV 2010
... imbalances will resurface following the second round of quantitative easing, outstanding sovereign issues globally and many OECD governments still with huge amounts of debt. "In the next five years, we expect an unraveling. There will be cracks in the ...

Workers to wear SG rise: Shorten

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 4 NOV 2010
... following repeated statements that the SG increase will not be funded by employers but by employees. Speaking yesterday at the OECD/IOPS Global Forum on Private Pensions, Shorten said he believes the SG increase should be paid out of wages and not profits ...

Much ado over more of the same

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 SEP 2010
... another statement opened to varying interpretations. At least the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) is not confused. Presenting its latest outlook in New York, OECD secretary-general Angel Durria said that, "It is becoming ...

Market Wrap - morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 16 SEP 2010
... Thursday, Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) assistant governor (economic) Dr Philip Lowe, Treasury Secretary Ken Henry and OECD chief statistician Martine Durand are scheduled to speak at the NatStats 2010 conference at Darling Harbour in Sydney. Also ...

Super, homes and savings a happy combo

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 3 AUG 2010
... and financial pressures. Australia ranks equal third with the United States and Sweden in overall life satisfaction among OECD countries, with an average score of 7.9 out of 10, beaten only by Ireland, Norway and Denmark (equal first) and Finland and ...

New-found optimism

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 JUL 2010
... year, up from its April projection of 4.2 per cent. Sure, sure. The Organisation for Economic Development and Cooperation (OECD) also upgraded its growth forecasts not even a full two months before - it raised its 2010 world growth outlook to 4.6 per ...

Every recovery starts jobless

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 JUL 2010
... take a few points. Even the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Organisation for Economic Development and Cooperation (OECD) and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) think so -- all recently revising upwards their growth forecasts for China, emerging ...

On caution's side

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUN 2010
... Spain, then... European recession? Then global double dip? As the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) warned in its latest Economic Outlook, Australia must not underestimate the threat of the uneven pace of global recovery and ...

Up, down and round and round

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAY 2010
... Street's movement overnight, it is that investor sentiment remains fragile. Just when financial markets were being soothed by an OECD report raising its growth forecasts for its 30-member nations and positive economic data out of America, Financial Times ...